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mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan do you understand the difference between saying "she fucked me because she loves me" in the morning vs saying "she will fuck me because she loves me" in the evening ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you could make a list of 1k names, but the point remains, the king's cousin was actually placed well enough to displace the monarchy.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 kinda dubious anyone other than him actually paid it any mind.
mircea_popescu: philippe egalite didn't end up the head of the french republic. napoleon did.
mircea_popescu: max keiser was not actually able to create an altcoin as successful as tat's.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you don't draw any inference from it, you may continue to think so.
mircea_popescu: "suppose this brick is a boat. obviously actual boats actually float, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: because particles are a piss poor stand-in for people.
mircea_popescu: and predicate a retrospective causality that never existed.
mircea_popescu: for instance, there are people right here working for me as we speak and probably reading this. i have no fucking idea where their working for me is going,
mircea_popescu: in fact, matrices aren't even there. and besides they could never be small enough to fit.
mircea_popescu: just because i use some matrices to describe eigenstates does not mean matrices are now integral parts of quantum mechanbics.
mircea_popescu: but plenty of retellings of history of the world in english have been predicated on the cognitive device you describe.
mircea_popescu: "if you have 1000 average people [...] take over a small county "
mircea_popescu: no, but they are capable of making their own fucking judgements.
mircea_popescu: are you going to try and resurect an argument as to agency underneath there ?
mircea_popescu: that's what the fucking coal finder machine is for : it finds coal.
mircea_popescu: if i don't find the coal over here i'll find it over there
mircea_popescu: do you mean add up to something in terms of resources, like a lot of coal or plankton adds up to something more than less coal or plankton ?
mircea_popescu: the huddled masses add up to something ? why and wherefore ?
mircea_popescu: see, many aspire to be a bitcoin jesus, but this guy actually has enough insight.
mircea_popescu: You are the 98%, you are totally without any access to the machinery of power and worse, much worse, you plug yourselves into the machinery of media and become a slave.
mircea_popescu: "Marching gets our message out." No it doesn't, it gets CNN's message out. "We don't watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and...
mircea_popescu: "The government allows it because someone has to deal with those "patients." The government doesn't any other options. "
mircea_popescu: people suddenly discovering that joe=from-across-the-country also read hitchhiker's
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you know what this has a lot in common with ?
mircea_popescu: soviets couldn't have fucking done it for lack of you know, tv. internet. roads. stuff.
mircea_popescu: the road was a lot wetter during rain than during drought, too.
mircea_popescu: course with or without that the system's movin' that way
mircea_popescu: i actually translated it in romanian cca 2011 so as to equip teh countrymen with t\he tool
mircea_popescu: e Man (but with no pension.) That's the system. Cut SSI payments and those docs-- and nurses and etc-- don't get paid.
mircea_popescu: The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for Th
mircea_popescu: works before you spew nonsense to your local Fox affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of a bitch, why didn't I think of that.
mircea_popescu: I'm guessing that this probably upsets people, on both sides of an imaginary political divide that only took 40 years to perfect. Thanks TV! Certainly I have my own opinions, but it doesn't matter what I think, what matters is what is. This is the system. If you think you can effect a huge social overhaul then feel free to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it
mircea_popescu: actually...that's what my mother got when she had ulcers in her 30s
mircea_popescu: "One of these is Soma. The drug we all know and love. The other is a drug called Meprobamate also known as Miltown/Equanil for those of you who are close to retiring. See a similarity? Are you old guys out there chuckling? "